Приложение на Wordsmith 6.0 в обучението по английски език
Application of Wordsmith 6.0 in English language teaching

Summary/Abstract: WordSmith 6.0 is a lexical analysis software which includes programs that facilitate different corpora examination. They can be ready-made corpora (BNC, COCA, etc.) or texts selected according to the choice of any researcher. The paper considers the application of WordSmith 6.0 in finding and easily processing examples of some useful structures that are found in native speakers’ language and then presenting and practicing them by the college students. The approach is based in a way on data-driven methodology in English language teaching. In general there are three main steps that are followed here, i.e. text selection for the corpora, corpora processing and finally some suggestions for exercises based on the results from the processed corpora.

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